EDIT: I've renamed this to the "Diorama Advice/Help Thread", per your requests!

Hello all, this thread is to discuss building and diorama models available to create scenes with kaiju figures of various sizes and scales. I'll be updating this post with new information and new brands that people suggest. At the time of this post, I am largely unfamiliar with many of the brands available, so I unfortunately cannot provide accurate measurements beyond what is available online. I can however point people towards where these models are available, and what they look like when set up.

1/150 Scale Companies

Tomytec:

Tomytec is a Japanese company that produces buildings and other items in the 1/150 scale, which appears to be the standard scale for other Japanese companies that produce building models. Naturally buildings vary in size by type, but as a 'standard' example, the Tomytec "Showa Office Building" has measurements as follows: size 16.1 x 12 x 6 cm. At the links below you can see pictures of this model and read a review of how it is constructed:

Kato is another Japanese company that uses the 1/150 scale, and appears to go well with the Tomytec buildings (though I have read that even at the same scale there might be some small differences in measurements, doorways, etc.). As an example of this company's production, I present the "DioTown Metro Series 6 Floor Department Store, Blue", which you can view at the link below. The measurements for this building are 21.5 x 12.2 x 10.5 cm:

I should mention that I can only provide measurements that I have read online, as I do not currently have these buildings on hand to provided more precise scaling (though I have ordered both of the above models and will be measuring them with various figures once I am able). However, in the Monsterarts thread user cmdmstudios posted a picture of the Monsterarts 94 Godzilla next to the Kato Department Store, providing a useful comparison which you can view below:

As you can see, the building is approximately the same height as the 6 inch figure, making it inaccurate for the 100 meter Heisei Godzilla. However, smaller-scale kaiju may work with the 1/150 scale quite well. A more detailed exploration of scale is something I intend to do for the purpose of this thread.

There are likely other companies that produce buildings in this scale that I am unaware of. For more examples of how they scale with 6-7 inch figures, I link to the Statigram gallery of "The Bazookaman" below, which shows Monsterarts and NECA's Pacific Rim figure next to Tomytec and Kato buildings:

Buildings of smaller scale than the 1/150 scale can be difficult to come by. However, one option for very small-scale city sets are the "Monsterpocalypse" buildings, created for the miniatures game of the same name. You can see an example of these miniatures at the link below:

Tamashii released a papercraft diorama for free on its website, for use with the Ultra-Act figures. I have not assembled the set, so I don't know how the buildings actually scale with the figures in question. It is available at the link below:

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THAT! I was wondering whenever I see music videos of Kaiju toys next to buildings. I always wonder where the heck I can get those buildings, and who manufactures them. Because, I was thinking, "Those can't be sold in stores".

@gzilla46I'm not sure where those buildings are from, but the white one looks like it might be constructed from Lego. Lego is also a viable way to build up a cityscape a various scales.

@EdGojraI know that model train companies do produce wilderness terrain at different scales; a desert area likely wouldn't be too difficult to construct. If I come across some terrain in the appropriate scale, I'll post it here.

Plexton wrote:@gzilla46I'm not sure where those buildings are from, but the white one looks like it might be constructed from Lego. Lego is also a viable way to build up a cityscape a various scales.

@EdGojraI know that model train companies do produce wilderness terrain at different scales; a desert area likely wouldn't be too difficult to construct. If I come across some terrain in the appropriate scale, I'll post it here.

That would be nice, you see I want to do a picture show of Godzilla surfacing in Egypt and raising more heck than the entire Decepticon army.

Great thread guys! Creating scenes for my kaiju to stomp around is my most favorite part of this hobby. A search general search for N-scale buildings on ebay will return quite a few options, both new and used, if you're going for 1/150 scale. The Quinntopia link given by Plexton at the start of this thread is unreal. The dude there is a mad genius...

For hesei, the appropriate scale would roughly be 1:650, given the 15cm height of the monsterarts 94 and the 10,000 cm height of the "real" Godzilla.

To that end...a search through Google yielded 1 model kit of the Eiffel tower, about 19" tall. Since Godzilla is 6" tall, the scale works (Eiffel tower is about 1063 feet tall, 3x the height of hesei G at 328 feet).

I measured my S.H. MonsterArts SpaceGodzilla he's about 17cm tall and since he's meant to be 120m tall that should put him roughly at a 1/700 scale.

It's very easy to make a little set to display them on, below is a youtuber who shows you how to make a mountain landscape diorama in 5 videos. He uses a kit but you can easily make everything by yourself.

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